Posts tagged with ‘i heart tech’

Rumor: Facebook in talks to buy Opera

A couple months ago, when Facebook bought Instagram, they said they were not going into the acquisitions business like so many other large companies, but that Instagram was just a good fit (probably because FB was already working on Facebook Camera and didn’t want to get sued for blatantly ripping off Instagram). But now that they’ve got billions extra in cash from their IPO, Facebook may be hungry more more. And that more may be Opera.

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Explore the great pyramids of Egypt in your browser with Giza 3D

There is no shortage of information out there on the Great Pyramids of Egypt, but if you want an in-depth 3D exploration of the pyramids at Giza in your browser, you can take a look at Giza 3D.

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The SpaceX Dragon capsule is now attached to the ISS, watch it live

The actual docking (spaceship sex) happened at around 930am EST this morning, but the UStream live feed is up, so you can see the Dragon capsule snugly attached to side of the ISS with the video link below. This is history being made, even if it looks kind of boring. Okay, so little is boring in space, but there isn’t much going on from the outside.

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Japan and Russia reveal plans to build a permanent base on the Moon

China has talked about building a permanent moon base, and now Japan and Russia want to jointly get in on the action. This past week, the two countries announced plans to put permanent bases up there. Where’s America on this? If only Newt were president, he’d do it.

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Why the Unreal Engine 4 will rock your video game world

As PCs and consoles up their hardware every few years, Epic Games’ Unreal Engine has been upping the bar all by itself and giving powerful tools to both indie and big name developers to create amazing looking games. You may think your shit looks good now, but when UE4 comes out, your world is gonna be rocked. At least that’s the hope.

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BBC’s live Olympics stream will include pause, rewind, alerts, and Twitter integration

Not only is it awesome enough that every single event of this year’s summer Olympics in London will be streamed on the internet for free, the live video stream will include a number of DVR options such as live pause and rewind. Oh, and Twitter integration. Obviously. So you can tweet about shot-putting to all your interfriends.

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After patent dispute, judge recommends banning the sale of Xbox 360s in the US

I don’t know the exact figures, but I’m pretty sure that every second in the US, a new lawsuit is filed from one tech company to another over some kind of patent infringement. In a recent spat between Microsoft and Motorola, the judge overseeing the case concluded that the government should temporarily ban the sale of the Xbox 360 over some patent issue. Wait, what?

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Evil genius makes ad-replacing Facebook plugin that nets him over $250k in just two weeks

Some of you are quite familiar with AdBlock, a browser plug-in that removes banner ads from websites. Well someone took that idea to the next, incredibly profitable level— a plug-in that replaces ads with ads connected to a single Google AdSense account, so that every ad you see is generating revenue for one guy, regardless of where you surf. And the genius part is that for now, this appears to be totally legal.

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Yahoo does something cool and unexpected, releases a Yahoo browser for desktop and web

The past few years, I’ve just gotten used to watching Yahoo’s slow death— watching as they acquire companies in a desperate bid to try and stay relevant, only to fuck everything up. The last thing I expected at this point was for Yahoo to release a browser. Even more unexpected is that it would actually be pretty decent.

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This camera sensor will deliver 4K video recording to your iPhone

Right now, several smartphones deliver incredible photo and video quality in the palm of your hand, but that little chip above could soon be delivering 4K video resolution to your phone. That’s higher resolution than almost every HDTV on the planet and the same resolution many Hollywood studios have adapted. 

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Daily Discussion: Tech you could live without

Yeah okay technically, you could live without almost any technology whatsoever, but in today’s modern world, which tech and/or gadgets do you wish you didn’t have to deal with, tech you wish didn’t exist or technology you just plain wish would go away?